Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf12-localteam] Web buttons for DebConf12
Leandro Gómez dijo [Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:56:30AM -0600]:
> > Nice banners, Leo: I put them online:
> > http://debconf12.debconf.org/artwork.xhtml
> > btw: I love the T-Shirt designs!
> >
> >
> Thank you! :)
>
> If someone wants to play around with the t-shirt designs, you can download
> the source files from here:
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debconf-data/media.debconf.org/dc12/t-shirt/
Yup, they are nice :)
Now, although they are nice, I'd suggest _avoiding_ designs which
include printing outside the regular (i.e. center-chest)
area, as the last suggestion. Although those shirts do look sweet,
printing them is a logistical nightmare, as they have to be printed
before cutting the fabric and making it into proper-shirts (as they go
beyond the borders and up to a region with irregular texture).
Try to keep all designs with a maximum printout area of an A4 (US
letter) area, minus ~2cm on each side. Also, each extra color/ink adds
quite a bit of cost. The DC6 shirts were the most complex so far
(printed with 6 layers of color, 4 of them needing submilimeter
aligning). Before DC6 we had had 1 and 2 inks, and since DC7 we have
always had 2 or 3 inks.
The DebConf12 logo is quite a challenge now, as it is already by
itself five colors. At least two of them (tail+wing) can be "squished"
down with very few people noticing. Possibly the dark-yellow head can
be made with black dithering over the yellow, but not every printing
technique allows for it.
Yes, I know the logo is already picked, but try to find a way to
reduce its complexity... Maybe we could print its outline rather than
each of its hues? I would suggest centering on the bird's head+swirl,
but I know the tail is the distinctive item of the
guardabarranco... So I'll try not to attempt to be creative, and leave
the details up to you :)
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